National Republican., 1887-05-09

ciples to all those who are abused aud slam
70 Death tSe disciples KNEW tSat be own
heads were not safe. Aud do You know that
every John has a Herod2 There are persons
in s who do not wish very well
motives, and would be glad 70 see you upset.
No man gets through li,e without ssN having
horned and husked and hoofod, Ia. gore. AMI
trample you; aud what are you to do? l tell
yoS plainly that al wh9 serve rst SaT iris IL mus tbs
world for you TO be able to say: ~ haven't an
enemy in the world" A woo is pronounced
10 the Bible against the one Of whom every,
body SPEAKS we'll. Ifyou are at peace with MI
the world, and everybody likes you aud np-
proves your work, II lsbeoause you are an idler
In the Lords vineyard and arc not doing your
duty.
All those who have served Christ, however
eminent, have been maltreated at some stage
OF their experience. You know 1t was 50 IN
the time OF George, WhiteHeld, when he stood
and invited men into the kingdom ofuod.
What did the learned DR.. johnson say of him
lie pronounced him miserable mountebank
How was 1t when Robert Hall stood and spoke
as scarcely any. uninspired man ever did
speak OF tho glories OF heaven7 And ash he
stood Sabbath after Sabbath preaching on
these themes his face kindled with the glory
John Foster, a Christian man, said of this
man; Robert Hall is only acting. and the
smile on his face is reflection of his own
vanity" John Wesley turned all England up.
punsters were after him, and the meauest
Wesley. What is true 81 the pulpit Is true OF
the shep, and the store. All who will live
godly In Christ Jesus must suffer persecution.
And ! set 1t down as the very worst sign In
Of you. at peace with ali the world. The re-
ligion OF Christ is war. 1t Is challenge TO
"the world, the flesh, aud the devil" aud II
you will buckle ON the whole armor OF God,
you will flud great host disputiug your path
| between this and heaven. But what are. you
| to do when you are assaulted and slandered
|! have been in your iife9 Go out and hunt up
the slanderer? o, no, silly mani While you
are explaining away falsehood in one place,
| hity people will just have heard OH In other
| places.
counsel you to another course. While you
are not TO omit any opportunity OF setting your.
| selves right, want to tell you this morning OF
| One who had the hardest things said about Him,
| whose sobriety was disputed, whose mission was
| secuted, whose companlonship was denounced,
| who was pursued rs babe, and spit upon as
| man; who was howled a. after ne was dead
| soul, in some humble, child prayer, saying :
II see Thy wounds-wounds Of head, wounds
Of feet, wounds of heart; Now, look At my my
| through what battles l am going and 1 en-
treat Thee, by those wounds Of Thine sympa-
thi5e G with me-" And H He ", Will IoI,yy sympathiso
Again, commend the behavior of the dis
| ciples to all who may have been bereaved.
How many In garb ofmourningl II you could
| stand ct this point where am standing and
| look off upon this audience, how many signals
of sorrow you would behold, God has his own
way Of taking apart family. We must get
| out of the way Tor coming generations. We
| must get off tho stage that others may come on,
and for this reason there Is long procession
reaching down all the time into the valley Of
This emigration from time into eternity is
so vast an enterprise that we cannot under
stand Il. Every hour we hear the claug OF the
sepulchral gate. The sod must be broken.
The ground must be ploughed for resurrection
harvest. Eternity must be peopled. The dust
must press our eyelids. M, "it Is appointed unto unto
time into eternity keeps three fourths of the
families of the earth In desolation. The air
Is rent with farewells. and the black tasseled
vehicles of death rumble through every
street.
The body of the child that was folded &c
closely to the mothers heart is put away II
the cold and the darkness. The laughter
Hbs The boy II in iY the harvest ed Of shunam say
MY head! my headP' ana they carry hiu
home to die on the lap Of his mother. Widow
the pallor ofthe cheek. Orphanage cries IL
vain for father and mother. Oh, the grave i
cruel! With teeth ofstone, 1t clutches for 1T
cher cher our hearts are are mansfed and crushed.
there any earthly solaoe! None. We come Il
the obsequies, we sit with the grief:stricken
obsequies have passed, the carriages have lei
us at the door, the friends who stayed for
few days are gone, and the heart sits in desc
never never again paiter through the hall. or iookn
| for the entrance OF those who will never com
again-sighing into the darkness-ever AM
| anon coming across some book or garment, o
little shoe or picture, that arouses former asso
citation, almost killing the heart
Long days and nights of suffering that wea
ont the spirit, and expunge the bright lines o.
| happardnpga
draw the flesh Tight down over the chee
eye, ano the haud Is tremulons, and the d y yoic
ing, grinding, accumulating, exhausting. :,
Now, what are such to 40? Are they merel
to look up into bIazen and Implying heaven
| Are they to walk q blasted heath uufet o.
| stream, unshetered by overarching tree Ha
Ged turned us out on tho barren common :
dieY Oh, no! no MOI He has not not. a., II
{ He understands all our, grief He sees n
height and the depth, and the length, and tn
breadth of IL. He is the My one that ca
, times when we have trouble We go to ou
friends and we explain 1t. and they try :
sympathize, but they do not understand !
, | They cannot understand 1t. But Christ sec
all over It, and all through It,. He not onl
counts the tears and records tho .groans, br
| before the tears Lstarted b9iore the groan
, your sorrow; and He takes it, and He weigh
/ 1t, and He measures 1t, and He pities II wit
I an all-absorbing pity. Bone OF our bons
! Flesh Of our flesh. Heart OF our heart. Sol
| row of our sorrow.
, Aslong as He remembers Lazarus's grave 3
Q will stand by you in the cemetery. AS long
B He remembers His own heart-break, He wi
ns % When Sa II he hs Sgss hs q Sy Way s
l sleepless nights, the weary body, the exhauste
4 mind, the awful cross. the solemn grave, the
T forget you but mot 10 shen gs sen
our friends: but they were far away, they coul
: not get to us. We wrote, to them: "Con
ey Or came n Msrs hs
while in coming, or perhaps were too late B
$ within you. No mother ever threw her arm
Q ecstacy of affection as Christ has shown towal
r you. Close at hand-nearer than the sta
/ upon which you lean, nearer than the Gu
: keTchief with which S You wipe 1 away wa ,1 yo'
tears-I preach Him an ever present, all syn
pathizing, compassionate Jesus. How can yc
grieis? 90 now. DO and tell Jesus.
Q ltis often that our friends have no power
d | relieve u.s. They would very much like to
Q II butthey cannot disentangle our finance
4 they cannot cure our sickness and raise Of
t dead; but glory be to God that He to whom II
disciples went has all power In heaven and q
1 earth, and at our call He will balk our calanl
a ties and, at just the right time, in the presen
Q Of an applauding earth and resoundiI
o heaven Will raise our dead. He will do 1t. /
q is mightier than Herod. He is swifter thI
= the storm. He is grander than the sea. He
o yaSter than eternity. And every sword
s Gods omnipotence will leap from Its scabbar
o and all the resources OF inhnity be exhaust.
>. livered when no cries to Him for rescu
a Suppose your child was In trouble, how nut
n would you endure to got him ouR You wou
: go through any hardship. You would say
:, don't cere ,e what It VIII cost ImnSt get him
" Do YOU think God isnot so good father